Psychosis affects around 200,000 US citizens a year and is considered a common mental disorder (U.S. National Library of Medicine). One in every 1600 people in the United States has some form of psychosis. In The Tell-Tale Heart the narrator displayed symptoms of mental illness with awareness of his psychotic features, which ultimately led to his insanity.
Symptoms of psychosis include delusions, hallucinations, talking incoherently and agitation (U.S. National Library of Medicine). The narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe shows signs of psychotic thoughts and behaviors. The narrator displays delusional thoughts as he describes how he likes the old man in the story, but can not handle the old man’s eye: “One of his eyes resembled
Symptoms of psychosis include delusions, hallucinations, talking incoherently and agitation (U.S. National Library of Medicine). The narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe shows signs of psychotic thoughts and behaviors. The narrator displays delusional thoughts as he describes how he likes the old man in the story, but can not handle the old man’s eye: “One of his eyes resembled